[Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez returns

2002-04-14 Thread Chris Burford
Welcome scenes on CNN of the return of Chavez to the Presidential Palace. The situation obviously still remains dangerous. In terms of how the risk of such coups against radical democratic governments should be avoided, I note that An "Imminent Coup in Venezuela" written by Gregory Wilpert on

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez returns

2002-04-14 Thread davidb
On 14 Apr 2002 at 9:22, Chris Burford wrote: > The forces of Chavez would have every right now to impose a > dictatorship of the proletariat, hopefully nuanced in the way Hal > Draper has argued, as emergency dicatatorial powers. There are already > reports that the events of the last few days ha

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez returns

2002-04-14 Thread Hugh Rodwell
Dave wrote: >On 14 Apr 2002 at 9:22, Chris Burford wrote: > >> The forces of Chavez would have every right now to impose a >> dictatorship of the proletariat, hopefully nuanced in the way Hal >> Draper has argued, as emergency dicatatorial powers. There are already >> reports that the events

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez returns

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/14/02 04:22AM >>> Welcome scenes on CNN of the return of Chavez to the Presidential Palace. The situation obviously still remains dangerous. In terms of how the risk of such coups against radical democratic governments should be avoided, I note that An "Imminent Coup

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez returns

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Burford
At 15/04/02 12:26 -0400, Charles wrote: >There is now talk of "middle class" leaving Venzuela, and presumably >capital is fleeing even more rapidly out of the country. > > > >CB: And moving where ? To Miami, with all the fascist trash kicked out >by Latin American revolutions ? True

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez returns

2002-04-16 Thread davidb
There is no space for any solution between reaction and revolution in a semi-colony like Venezuela dominated by US imperialism. Completing the national democratic revolution will take a socialist revolution as we learned in Russia and which has been proven by armed popular movements in China, C